Even if the “student loan” story that Snopes pushes were true and there were no benefactor (which I don’t really believe but put on hold for the sake of “if”) this just does not seem possible in the real world. Let me think about that for a moment. Um—there has to be a benefactor.Try Lolo Soetoro, in absentia. (He died in 1987, the same year O decided to apply to law schools.) Acceptance was another matter.